Yeah, it is. Personally, it's nice to see elegance and competency actually get rewarded for once.
Somewhere in the last couple of years, the general consumer population went from "Computers are skary, fragile things" to "Wow, this actually works like a real tool." - and they're responding to form as a reflection of function. (It's never been an either/or issue, except to those who can't see the other side of the fence, and insist it's a chasm.)
This is a hellaciously good thing, IMO. It means that maybe, just maybe, we can start moving forward as an industry on actually getting somewhere, instead of just reinventing the wheel every couple of years in new contexts. Because really, that's lame.
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Date: 2007-10-23 08:31 pm (UTC)Somewhere in the last couple of years, the general consumer population went from "Computers are skary, fragile things" to "Wow, this actually works like a real tool." - and they're responding to form as a reflection of function. (It's never been an either/or issue, except to those who can't see the other side of the fence, and insist it's a chasm.)
This is a hellaciously good thing, IMO. It means that maybe, just maybe, we can start moving forward as an industry on actually getting somewhere, instead of just reinventing the wheel every couple of years in new contexts. Because really, that's lame.